As the war enters 12th day, both the Israeli and the US militaries are using AI to accelerate decision-making, analyzing vast amounts of intelligence data for generating targets, and optimizing logistics, shifting toward AI-enabled command structures to maintain battlefield superiority. Almost all major US AI data center operators have signed contracts to provide AI tools and services to both the Pentagon and the IDF. This arrangement has not gone unnoticed by the Iranians who are now targeting AI data centers in the Middle East.
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| Data Centers in Gulf States. Source: Bloomberg |
Last week, three data centers operated by AmazonWeb Services (AWS), two in the United Arab Emirates and one in Bahrain, were struck by Iranian drones or missiles. The attacks forced the facilities offline and led to service outages affecting banking, payments, delivery apps, and enterprise software across the region, according to a Fortune magazine report. The U.S. military uses AWS to run some of its workloads, including running Anthropic’s AI model Claude for some intelligence functions, and Iran’s Fars News Agency said on Telegram that the Bahrain facility had been deliberately targeted “to identify the role of these centers in supporting the enemy’s military and intelligence activities.”
American hyperscalers like Amazon and Google have flocked to the Gulf states in recent years to take advantage of the region’s ample cheap energy, vast pools of investment capital, and real estate. Most of their operations are run through partnerships with local data center firms, and so it’s not always clear which ones are associated with US companies. Of the approximately 230 data centers that are built or in development in a half dozen Arab countries bordering the Gulf, only a handful are wholly owned and operated by a US tech giant, Amazon, according to researcher DC Byte. Three of those are the centers that were hit, according to Bloomberg.
With the growing use of AI in warfare, the digital infrastructure and the data centers are increasingly being targeted by belligerents. Data centers are sprawling, visible complexes dependent on exposed infrastructure—such as cooling units, diesel generators, and gas turbines—that can be disabled without a direct hit on the servers themselves. “If you knock out some of the chillers you can take them fully offline,” Sam Winter-Levy, a fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, told the Financial Times. The threat of multiple data centers coming under attack at once during wartime is forcing companies to rethink their strategies, including securing data centers against missiles or drones, according to Bloomberg.
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Google has a huge AI data center right in Tel Aviv. One in Dsmmam. Another coming up also in Dammam.
This doesn’t sound good for google.
Google's co-founder Sergei Brin is an avowed Zionist. He thinks UN is antisemitic.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/07/08/sergey-brin-united-nations-gaza-israel/
Google co-founder Sergey Brin calls U.N. ‘transparently antisemitic’ after report on tech firms and Gaza
His comment on an internal company forum came in response to a United Nations report alleging that Google profited from Israel’s “genocide,” screenshots show.
NYTimes: U.S. at Fault in Strike on School in Iran, Preliminary Inquiry Says
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/11/us/politics/iran-school-missile-strike.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
When the Defense Intelligence Agency’s targeting data is older, intelligence officers are expected to use imagery or data from the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency to update and verify the target.
While Mr. Trump has made targeting Iran’s navy a top priority of the war to prevent it from interfering with global commerce in the region, historically it is not been a top priority of the Defense Intelligence Agency, which has focused more on Iran’s missiles and other priorities like China and North Korea.
Officials conducting the investigation have examined whether any artificial intelligence models, data crunching programs or other technical intelligence gathering means were to blame for the mistaken targeting of the school, according to U.S. officials.
While Claude, the large language model created by Anthropic, does not directly create targets, it works with the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency’s Maven Smart System and other software to identify points of interest for military intelligence officers.
https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/2031542531520163950
Donald Trump admitted that the imperialist war of aggression against Iran is not just about regime change; it aims to destroy the state and collapse Iranian society.
The US empire wants to "make it virtually impossible for Iran to ever be built back, as a Nation, again".
“The masters of the universe are Jews,” former US Senator declares in Israel - The Grayzone
https://thegrayzone.com/2025/04/28/masters-universe-jews-us-senator-israel/
Ex-GOP Senator and Republican Jewish Coalition chair Norm Coleman proclaimed with a straight face that Jews control the world during a Jerusalem conference featuring a speech by Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu.
Former US Senator Norm Coleman has raised eyebrows by declaring that “the masters of the universe are Jews” at a major Zionist lobby event in Jerusalem. In an address to a summit hosted by the Adelson-funded Jewish News Syndicate on April 27, Coleman pointed to various major technology firms founded by Jews, suggesting the shared religion of the companies’ creators should translate into a greater zeal for censoring criticism of Israel.
“And when you think about it, the Masters of the Universe are Jews! We’ve got Altman at OpenAI, we’ve got [Facebook founder Mark] Zuckerberg, we’ve got [Google founder] Sergey Brin, we’ve got a group across the board. Jan Koum, y’know, founded WhatsApp. It’s us.”
That's a strange statement for someone to make. Individuals of Indian origin/ethnicity have been leading Google, Microsoft, IBM, Adobe, Youtube, Novartis, Micron, Honeywell, Cognizant etc., and yet Indians aren't the masters of the world.
Vineeth: “ Individuals of Indian origin/ethnicity have been leading Google, Microsoft, IBM, Adobe, Youtube, Novartis, Micron, Honeywell, Cognizant etc., and yet Indians aren't the masters of the world”
The Indians you mentioned work for the people Coleman called “masters of the universe”. For example, the Google CEO Sundar Pichai doesn’t own the company; Sergei Brin does.
US tech giants on Iran's list of potential targets in Gulf countries
https://youtu.be/6J1l48cvHGU?si=FwZJjGot4e7rqCDq
Iran's Tasnim news agency has published a list of potential targets for Iran on Telegram, including the offices of tech giants such as Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Nvidia in Gulf countries and Israel. Hoda Abdel-Hamid reports from Doha for FRANCE 24.
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